Are you really telling me that it's going to cost $30,000 to install an electrical pole?

Most people will not touch this with a 10 foot pole and they have told you that on this blog.  

@Lee Goree   this type of stuff reminds me of a crazy associate of mine that decided he was going to get into commodities.. and he was going to trade jet fuel or remember the Africa gold craze he did both..He spent days and weeks and months talking to people all over the world about selling Jet fuel..from his basement in Beaverton Oregon..

. ,    The long term trend certainly is more fuel efficiency and accessible oil.  

There was nothing left but the telephone poles that the house sat on when I drove by.

Could be a small line surge passing through a faulty limit or curcit switch........Even if there were an electrical surge that caused a spark from the ignitor, the gas supply knob still has to be rotated to supply gas to fuel the burners.

I'm naturally a little neurotic but since real estate is very emotional it just fuels the fire. 

That was a tough lesson for me.I completely agree with everything you said.Personally I won't go near a 401K or an IRA with a 10 foot pole.

I drove out to the property and found that a back neighbor's massive tree had fallen across the back alley and taken down the arial line from the telephone pole to my house.  

My son was there all day and we had determined that the dual oil tanks weren't fueling properly and were equalizing tanks about when the guy got there.